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View synonyms for colloquialism
colloquialism
[ kuh-loh-kwee-uh-liz-uhm ]
colloquialism
/ kəˈləʊkwɪəˌlɪzəm /
noun
- a word or phrase appropriate to conversation and other informal situations
- the use of colloquial words and phrases
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Other Words From
- col·loqui·al·ist noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of colloquialism1
First recorded in 1800–10; colloquial + -ism
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Example Sentences
“Shut up,” the hacker responded, using a Farsi colloquialism.
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Now “awfully sorry” is not a western colloquialism, and the girl looked at him attentively.
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He must like to figure, to use a colloquialism,18 and his fondness for it must be genuine, almost an absorption.
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For instance, the use of "most" for "almost" is distinctly, if not a vulgarism, at least a colloquialism.
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Every proverb, every slang phrase and colloquialism, is what one might call a petrified inspiration.
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Such a compliment has seldom been paid on so early an attempt at colloquialism in a new language.
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